Are you looking for help maintaining your Los Angeles or San Gabriel Valley area wildlife garden or native plant garden?

We are Los Angeles area fine gardeners with a focus on California native plant gardens and wildlife gardens.

L.A. Native Plant Connection, LLC is headed by Jill Davis Doughtie (left), who has been gardening with California native plants since 2009. Ana Friedenberg (right), joined the team as a botany student in 2024.

Garden care services:

  • Hand weeding, digging weeds out by the roots
  • Hand pruning
  • Deadheading
  • Raking beds
  • Tidying, removing spent material from grasses and other plants by hand
  • Planting
  • Hand watering
  • Weed control for newly planted landscapes through a combination of hand weeding and razor hoeing

All services are done by hand, no power tools or pesticides are used.

Garden care is available on the schedule that works best for you: weekly, bimonthly, monthly, seasonally, or on a one-time or occasional special project basis.

Garden care is $75 per person per hour with a four person hour minimum per visit.

Consulting services:

  • Help selecting local native plants for your specific garden conditions
  • Help selecting local native plants with a focus on supporting butterfly and moth populations
  • Advice on the process of starting your native plant garden
  • In person shopping together at a native plant nursery

Consulting is $100 per hour by videochat or in person, plus a travel fee if in person.

Contact us for garden care or consulting.